Raw & Refreshed: July 2014

Friday, July 25, 2014

All throughout my adolescent years, I have battled this unrelenting force that haunts and terrorizes many, a force that I wish I could only zap into oblivion. Acne, my friends, is that force I am referring to, and it is absolutely no fun at all.

I have never been one to become overwhelmed with acne, yet I am not one to say I have had a perfect complexion either. Far from it actually. After years of trying every pimple product known to the teenage man, I have finally seen better days for my complexion. Not crediting the products I used however, I feel as though my turn for the better, skin wise, is a product of my hormones finally taking a breather and giving my skin a break.

However...

I have been recently interested in experimenting with natural products and remedies to maintain clean and healthy skin. My decision to ditch commercial brand skin products was done on a basis of somewhat fear; fear of the ingredients within those products that I could not pronounce, yet was being plastered, rubbed, and soaked all over my face and body. I have grown to love a natural raw diet, so why not venture the same for my skin care?

Through all the experimentation I have done this summer, I am very lucky to say that I never experienced any allergic reactions to the methods I tried (phew). However, I did gather a handful of my favored methods and products, that worked best for my skin.

These products included:

1. Aveda All-sensitive cleanser

2.Aveda All-sesnitive moisturizer

3. Coconut Oil

4. Avalon organics hand and body lotion

5. Mountain Forest Raw Honey

6. Lemon

7. Featuring: Frank body coffee scrub

The above all worked great for my skin, and gave my skin a glowing smooth texture.

It is mid July, and I am suddenly struck with the harsh realization that summer has hit a midpoint. My whole year awaits on the fresh and ease of a summer breeze, and yet I feel as though it is seemingly stringing through my fingertips; escaping my desperate grasp to hold it dear forever.

Why is it that we await something, it arrives, and then it is gone within a sudden blink of an eye? It is an inevitable truth of reality. I have been summer lusting, and now I hold a certain sincere fear that these days will vanish before I truly enjoy them.

Indulging in Sweet Simplicity

Sometimes it is the smallest of things that resonates in our hearts the most.

I have always been one to observe. Yes I enjoy indulging in conversation, yet I am the type that is more likely to watch my surroundings carefully rather than talk my head off. I remember in school, during lunch, when everyone bursts into a chaos of chatter, I was always the one person that would just sit and carefully examine all that was happening. The conversations, the facial expressions, the consuming hymn of voices that carried throughout all four corners of the cafeteria. I took enjoyment in simply watching someone laugh, watching friends finish each other sentences, watching the cafeteria lady smile at each student.